Sackenheim said in the past four years, Seward Road has seen 17 water main breaks, 10 of which have happened in the past six months.

City of Fairfield crews begin repairing a water main break on Wednesday in front of Pacific Manufacturing Ohio on Seward Road. MICHAEL D. PITMAN/STAFF

Photo: Staff Writer

"This area is becoming very problematic for us. What it's doing, is when we have main breaks in this area, we are interrupting services to Pacific Manufacturing, to Western States and to some other critical commercial and industrial customers," Sackenheim said.

He said he believes the city installed “bad pipe” 35 years ago. Pipes should last decades longer than 35 years.

Replacing part of the Seward Road waterline pipe will cost an estimated $750,000.